[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 157 (Wednesday, August 15, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45832-45833]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-16067]
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
[Docket No. 030-05004]
Notice of License Termination and Release of the Northern States
Power Company Pathfinder Site in Sioux Falls, SD, for Unrestricted Use
AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
ACTION: Notice of license termination and site release for unrestricted
use.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chad J. Glenn, Materials
Decommissioning Section, Division of Waste Management and Environmental
Protection, NRC, Washington, DC 20555; telephone: (301) 415-6722; fax:
(301) 415-5369; or e-mail at: cjg1@nrc.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
Pursuant to 10 CFR Part 20 Subpart E, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) is providing notice that it has terminated Northern
States
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Power Company, dba Xcel Energy, Materials License No. 22-08799-02 and
released its Pathfinder site in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for
unrestricted use. The licensee's request for an amendment to authorize
decommissioning of its Pathfinder site was noticed in the Federal
Register on August 4, 2004 (69 FR 47185). A notice of availability of
an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact
related to this action was published in the Federal Register on May 25,
2005 (70 FR 30150) and the license was amended to authorize
decommissioning activities in accordance with a NRC-approved
decommissioning plan.
In a letter dated February 26, 2007, Xcel Energy provided final
radiological status surveys to demonstrate that the site met the
license termination criteria in 10 CFR Part 20 Subpart E. NRC staff
conducted inspections and confirmatory surveys including the collection
of samples and independent measurements of on-site soils and building
surfaces.
The NRC staff evaluated Xcel Energy's request and reviewed the
results of the final radiological surveys. Based on those reviews, the
staff determined that the site met the unrestricted release criteria in
10 CFR Part 20 Subpart E. The staff prepared a Safety Evaluation Report
(SER) to support its termination of the Northern States Power Company
license for the Pathfinder site.
II. Further Information
In accordance with 10 CFR Part 2.790 of the NRC's ``Rules of
Practice,'' details with respect to this action, including the SER, are
available electronically at the NRC's Electronic Reading Room at http:/
/www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/adams.html. From this site, you can access the
NRC's Agencywide Document Access and Management System (ADAMS), which
provides text and image files of NRC's public documents. The ADAMS
accession number for the termination letter with enclosed SER, titled
``Completion of Decommissioning Activities Northern States Power
Company DBA Xcel Energy Pathfinder Site, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
(Docket No. 030-05004)'' is ML071900323. If you do not have access to
ADAMS or if there are problems in accessing a document located in
ADAMS, contact the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) Reference staff at 1-
800-397-4209, 301-415-4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov.
This document may also be viewed electronically on the public
computers located at the NRC's PDR, O-1-F21, One White Flint North,
11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR reproduction
contractor will copy documents for a fee.
Dated at NRC, Rockville, MD, this 8th day of August 2007.
For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Keith I. McConnell,
Deputy Director, Decommissioning and Uranium Recovery, Licensing
Directorate, Division of Waste Management and Environmental Protection,
Office of Federal and State Materials and Environmental Management
Programs.
[FR Doc. E7-16067 Filed 8-14-07; 8:45 am]
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